Intimations.
G. FALCONER & Co..
LIMITED,
WATCH-MAKERS AND JEWELLERS. Telephone No. 983.
HOTEL MANSIONS.
NEW SELECTIONS OF
DIAMOND JEWELLERY AND ENGLISH SILVER WARE HIGH-CLASS GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES. LARGE SELECTION OF PRESENTATION PLATE, CUPS, BOWLS, ETC. FALCONER, & Co, are Abenty POR. ROSS'S FAMOUS TELESCOPES AND BINOCULARS, LORD KELVINS NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS. ADMIRALTY CHARTS AND BOOKS.
SOLE AGENTS FOR THE EMPIRE TYPEWRITER.
SAL
WING KEE & CO.,
Nos, 47, 48 and 19, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL (HL-CHANDLERS, SAILMAKERS, PROVISION-- MERCHANTS, COAL
MERCHANTS, de, &c., OF FIFTY YEARS STANDING SHIP CAPTAINS ARE REQUESTED-TO GIVE US A TRIAL FRANCISCO TSE YAT, General Manager: Barkong. August 19, 1998.
1788
MEE CHEUNG & CO., ART PHOTOGRAPHER, ICE HOUSE LANE SPECIALIST IN ENLARGING AND BROMIDE WORK. Select Views of Hongkong and South China Special Department for Developing and Printing for Amateurs CAMERAS FOR HIRE.
1788
Tutimations.
THE CHINA MAIL.
SIR ROBERT HART TO RETIRE.
The Now Inspector-General.
On the May lab the Peking correspondent of the Times wired as under :-
Sir Robert Hart completed his three
informed that, in view of blendracoed aga and forble health, and of the immensely) increased work now attaching to the post of Inpector General of Maritime Customs, COAL DEPARTMENT resignation to the Chinose Governments, Sir Robert Hart has decided to tender his
WITSU BISHI GOSHI KWAISHA of absence yesterday. I am
(MITSU BISHI 00.)
SOLE
Intimations.
BIJOU SCENIC THEATRE,
FLOWER STRUDT.
EVERY EVENING AT 9.13 P.M.
Brilliant Moving Pictures.
VAUDEVILLE,
TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1911.
จ
POPULAR ARTISTES.
POPULAR PRICES: SEE HAND BILLS.
14 Lessee and Manager.. Hongkong, June 3, 1811.
R. H. STEPHENSON.
736
which he has served with such devation for 7.18 P.M. Pictures only (OLE PROPRIETORS of TAKA. so many years
SIMA, OCHI, MUTAHE, YO-
It must give keen satisfaction to the SHINOTANI, HOJO, KANADA, aged- Inspector-Gus.ral that Mr Aglen, NAMAZUTA, SAYO, SHINNEW} whom upon his adrian the Chinese florern. and KAMIYAMADA Colleries.
SOLE AGENTS for EISHIDAKE COAL.
HEAD OFFICE:—TOKYO. BRANCH OFFICES:- Nagasaki, Maji, Karatan, Wakamaten, Kobe, Ösaka, Shanghai, Hongkong. Harkow
TYL, ANDRIES for above: IWABAKL Çodem:—AI, ABO 5th Ed., Western Union,
AGENCIES: YOKOHAMA; M. Aeada, Esq. COINETANG: Mesera Gearing &
Co. MANILA: Messrs Macondray &
Co.
ment have selected as his successor, has, during the year that has elapsed since dis appointment as Acting Inspector-General, porformed his difficult duties in a muser approved of by all nationalities, effecting { much-needed reforms and controlling the vist administration with an impartiality and absence of favouritiam worthy of the best traditions of the service.
Commenting on the above, the Times 1
Bays:-
LANTERNS and CANDLES,
SPECIALLY MADE FOR THE CORONATION CELEBRATIONS,
THE under-mentioned Firms has been specially recommended by the Chairman of
the Coronation Committee for sale of RED JAPANESE LANTERNS. The Prices are as follows:
...at $
Per 100.
"100.
11
100.
Sir Robert Hart's decision can cause no
Pinches in disunter...... surprise, for he has long earned his repose. He is seventy-six years of age, and he has
Candles to suit sâme and to burn 4 hours...at passed forty-eight of those years in the It is advisable to Order early to avoid disappointment.
Do.
94 hours...at $1.50
Chinese service.
Even were his health
stil robust, he might fairly claim at his time of life to be relieved from the heavy burden bo has so long borne. The o xieties and the responsibilities he has
undergine have been of a character to
hreak down the strongest constitution, and it must Lo remembered that he has been obliged to enduro them
THE HONGKONG HOTEL SINGAPORE: Mesers Borneo Co. in conditions unfaventable to the phy
11
UNRIVALLED FOR COMFORT AND CUISINE, THORJUGULY UP TO DATE WITH EVERY MODERN LUSURY MODERATE TERMS AND NO EXTRAS
196
"
PEAK
Ltd.
For parties, apply to
Y. SHIBUYA,
Manager, No. 1, PADKA STREET
HoxAKONG.
J. H. TAGGART, Manager,
Hongkong, April 29, 1911.
HOTEL.
ADMIRABLY SITUATED AT VICTORIA GAP. Adjoining the Tramway ernimus. 1,400 feet above Sea Level.
PEN to the South, Winds in Summer and protected from the North-east. Windu in Winter Commanding a magnibuent view of Hongkong, the harbour and adjacent island for forty miles.
A FIRST-CLASS FAMILY, RESIDENTIAL AND TOURISTS HOTEL
Terms From 85 per day Mex
Telegraph Add: Peaceful.
Town Office. 4. Dra Vorex ROAD.
tongkung February 8, 1908,
WING ON Co..
TAILORS AND OUTFITTERS. EXPORT AND IMPORT MERCHANTS
HAVE JUST RECEIVED NEW SHIPMENTS OF
Drapery, Grocery, Ironmongery, Crockery, Glass and China Ware, Furniture, Watches & Clocks. -- The Cheapness and quality of their Goods have no equal.
909-213, DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL.,
--
107 & 108, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL (Trams pass the Door}
Telephone 180, Hongkang, Angent lá 1450
779
J. ULLMANN & CO.
JEWELLERS, WATCHMAKERS AND OPTICIANS..
Always carry a large and varied Stock of HIGH CLASS JADE AND CHINESE-MADE JEWELLERY SOUVENIR-SPOONS.
THE FINEST ASSORTMENT EVER SEEN IN HONGKONG:
Prices right.
Weismann, Limited,
sical and mental exertion of Europaans. Three years ago he was forced to recognisa that he was unable to contique in the por formance of his exacting daties without a long holiday. Ea obtained leave of absence
for a year from May 1, 1909, but it was 618 generally fult that, when the veteran administrator left Peking, he left it for ever. His leave, it is true, has eince boan extended
PEAK TRAMWAY COMPANY, LTD. for two successiva. twelve months, but these
NOTICE.
10 additionni enes wil be run:
and after lith instant the following
WERK BAYN:
M154.3. 3.15 ..
8.10 P.M.
10.00 P.31. 10.30 r.. 11.00 ..
11.30 P.M.
SUNDAYS
9.15 A 8.10 P.. 10.00 r.. 10.30 r.x. 11.00 P.M. 11.30 ..
The above service between 7.30 A,, and 8 A.M. on week days will be every quarter of an hour instead of every 10 minutes.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Mujo JR, Hongkong, June 2, 1011.
NOTICE.
742
In addition of the steamship business we are handliaz Oregon Pine, "Redwood, Canation Cream, etc. Any inquiries will hare our most prompt and careful atten.
THE ROBERT DOLLAR CO. Hongkong, June 2, 1911.
tion.
extensions have bean regarded as the kindly concessions of a country, where age is held in the highest honour, to an old and valued servant of the State. Now that he has been absent for three years from his post, ne must himself acknowledge that there is no prospect of his being able to, resume it with advantage to the wonderful service which he has built.op or to the Government to which he has given his life's work. For a considerable period before he came home there were signs that the strain. of the in-
too severs for a man of his advanced years, creasing daties of his office was becoming
Na devotion and no colage ein withstand the inroads of time and of lailing health. Sir Robert withstood the assaults of both,
We have also in stock Small Lanterns (8 inches in diameter) cost 84.00 per 100.
DOBASHI & CO., Opposite.Clock Tower & opposite City Hall. NAEAZAWA.
D'Aguilar Street.
DALBUTSU & CO., 2, Queen's Road East.
Hongkong, June 1, 1911.
SHIPOWNERS COMPOSITIONS,
735
GREYHOUND BRAND ANTIFOULING PAINTS.
SOLE AGENTS:
OWEN B. WILKS & Co.,
1st Floor, ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS. PHONE. 909.
Teleg. WANDEROOS.
G. P. SPECIAL ANTIFOULING FOR YACHTS:
AGENT: CANTON, H. LEE
Hongkong, December 1-1910.
FOR THE HOT SEASON !!!
If you like a cold drink go and get an
ICE
BOX
so long sa he could resist them witbont serious detriment to the great in cresta i THE ROBERT DOLLARC this charge. When he felt that he could not
their own office at Room No. 7, THIRD FLOOR, HOTEL repal them it became his duty to deliver MANSIONS.
and to endeavour by rest and change of ap his charge into other and younger hands,
climate to restore his strength. Then, as ever, he did his duty to his Chinese orp ployers. Ho did not indeed resign, bu when to transferred the administration to Sir Robert Bredon, and sailed for Europe, he car hardly have fattored himself with the expectation that he would ever be able to resume the heavy lind he had laid down. Any illusion of the kind must at any rate have vanished in the three years that have since gone by. Both in England and in Peking it is felt to be impossible that he ALL SIZES should return.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
743
DIVIDEND c.account of the year of THIRTY CENTS per Share will be payable at the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Hongkong, on and after the 2nd Jane, 1911, on Warrants to be obtained at the Company's Offices.
The Dividend will also be payable at the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Shanghai, f-on and after the same dato.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers. Hongkong, June 2, 1911.
Popular
.742
Bakers, Confectioners, Caterers, ASAHI BEER
Restauranteurs.
14. DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL.
Hongkong, July 20, 1010.
IALINE
REGISTERED TRADE MARK of -
699
BURT, BOULTON AND HAYWOOD LTD., LONDON, FOR THE DISINFECTION OF DRAINS, WATER-CLOSETS, LAVA- | TOKIES, SICK-ROOMS, FLOORS, WALLS, GUTTERS, &c.
IT IS THE STRONGEST AND MOST POWERFUL
J
OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE,
SOLE AGENTS
Sir Robert Hart have lived life for which we know no perallel. It is, of course, nothing new for Europeans to sarye Oriental Governments, and to serve them with distinction. But the Europeans who have held office under such Governments have seldom, if ever, succeeded in pro foundly modifying the administration of the States in which they lived. It is the unique distinction of Sir Robert Hart the ho has accomplished this foat in the oldest and, in some respects, tha most couservative Empira upon earth. Ea has grafted on to the unwickly and
,
A NEW LOT
HAS JUST ARRIVED.
TO BE HAD AT
7.
14
"REASONABLE PRICES.
F. BLACKHEAD & CO.
NOTICE.
1565
During Miss Massey's absence in
corrupt system of Chineso administration Shanghai enquiries for Belfast Barker
is Department which is model of efficiency and of probity. His success wsa Astonishing. He had little bat his personal character to support him
Marine Motors, Maguetos, Coils, Spares.
in his early efforts to establish the now etc., may be addressed to
Department and he he had great dim- culties to encounter, from without as well; as fom within. It is not a little to the credit of the Chinese Government, a well as to the honour of Sir Robert Hart, that he won, and for many years enjoyed, so large a measure of their con fidence. From the begining of his career be convinced them that they could trast him, and the trust. they placed in him was the condition and the secret of his KUBOGAU. The return of the Castome were, indoed, palpable proof of his
CARBORIC DISINFECTING FLUID, MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, idill and of his honesty, but probably it
THE CHEAPEST AND MOST RECOMMENDABLE FOR GENERAL HOUSE USE, LOTION OF 2 PER CENT. BEING SUFFICIENT.
Recommended by Sanitary Authorities.
Government Analysis et Buyers' Disposal.
TOR.
AVENARIOS' WORLD-KNOWN 'COPPER PAINT.
For the Bottoms of Vessels and Boats and for the Coatings of
ul Wooden Structures of Wharves and Docks. Penetrates deep
ofismeà ong, Druumber 17. 1800
"
1322 would have been thrown away upon the Chinese hat for the personality of the Inspector-General. He had in a
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CAREFUL ATTENTION TO ALL ORDERS BAND ENQUIRIES YOU LADIES & CHILDREN'S
HATS, GLOVES, EMBROIDERY, BLOUSES, SHPES, HABERDASHERY,
&c., &c.
Ws 'GIVE THE BEST VALDE
SAVARESSES
uto the wood, thus rendering same immune against attacks of THE DRAPERY EMPORIUM, SANTAL NIIL
bó Teredo, Barnacles Marine Growths, etc.
Sole Agents
MELCHERS & Co., Hongkong
Hongkong, May 6, 1908,
&
China
38, WELLINGTON STREET,
Near D'Aguilar St,
TELEPHONE, No. 107. Hongkong, April 18,"1911,
CAPSULES
ÆFAHRENEES OF OIL - CERTAINTY OF CURI
KWAAMO “INCONVENIENCE PICS REDACTIONS.
FORSSAVAREND
Messrs ARNDT & Co.,
38, Queen's Road.
Hongkong, August 93, 1919.
"The Beer That's Brewed to Suit The Climate"
O. B. BEER
Just Try It"
Intimations.
The Wrong
WAY TO READ.
If you have to hold the prin too far away to see clearly, the oyes will bu strained to make out the fine print.
If you have to hold the print too close that will strain the muscles of the eye. Either way in had,
See us ind have the satisfaction
of using a pair of right fitting, right sooing glaceos,
OLARA
LARK & CO CIENTIFIC OPTICIANS YORK BLOGS, CHATER RD"
HONGIANG
Hongkong, February 14, 1911. 77
THE EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES,
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General ManARERS, HONGKONG.
J. T. HAMILTON, GENERAL MANAGER FOR THE EAST, TOKYD.
Total Asecta Dec. 31, 1910...G.8494,715,923
Surphan
Dividends to Policyholders
1910
Total paid Policyholders 1910 Tatal Expenses for 1910 Gross earnings from Interest
and Rents for 1910...... Gross rate of Income from
Investments 1910....... Hongkong, May 30, 1911.
85,005,459
10,575,157
53,430,380
10,392,032
21,548,828
4.48. 127
Have you tried our
CORNED BEEF,
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BEEF SAUSAGES
AND PORK SAUSAGES,
Send us your trial orders. We
guarantee entire satisfaction.
THE DAIRY FARM CO., LTD.
Hongkong. November-12, 1910.
88
YEE SANG FAT,
OPPOSITE POST OFFICE.
TAILORS AND OUTFITTERS.
STYLE AND FIT
GUARANTEED.
PJ
NEW STOCK
Helmets (Cork and Rubber).
RAIN COATS,
BATH ROBES
AND
SUMMER UNDERWEAR.
Hongkong. Bept. 20, 19
溝水心力麺懃士
HOME - MADE MINERAL WATERS.
1814
BETTER THAN FACTORY-MADE.
门
Why continue purchas ing ischory-made Mineral Water! Make your own, Mineral Waters að koma at a cost or Ecouter a dozen Syphons. Then you KNÓW the watoz is pure, and contains no disonsagerups. With the PRAKA SPARKLET SYTHON and i dozon Bulbs you can make 8 Idozsa Syphons of delicious Mineral Water and the cost ls than if you buy Eactory made Mineral Water. All Chomista.
and Stores sell: Pram Sparklet Syphons
and Bulbs.
Price of Syphon...... 32.00 ench.
Bulls 0.50 per box. Wholesale Price—)
Syphon pur được
..810.90 Zuh.
Bulta per duz. boxes8 8.00 f.o.b.
KWONG SANG HONG, LTD., WEGLESALE ADENTS,
246 and 298, Des Voeux Road Central,
HONGKONG] =
行發
司公限有行生廣港香
Hoggart Darah 3, 1911